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A new study from MIT cognitive scientists offers an answer to why legal documents such as contracts or deeds are often so impenetrable.

Legal documents, such as contracts or deeds, are notoriously difficult for nonlawyers to understand. A new study from MIT cognitive scientists has

A look back at the business highlights of the past week in Northeast Ohio.

The Roundtable Panel: a daily open discussion of issues in the news and beyond. Today's panelists are WAMC’s Alan Chartock, Siena College Professor of Comparative Politics Vera Eccarius-Kelly, Tetherless World Professor of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences at RPI and Director of the RPI-IBM Artificial Intelligence research collaboration Jim Hendler, Counter-terrorism expert and best-selling author Malcolm Nance.

From Crain's Akron Business: The funding pledge comes from alumnus Earl K. Miller and his wife, Marlene M. Wicherski.

Our lives are full of decisions, and bad ones can lead to regret. New Scientist helps you make up your mind

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Forgetfulness is often regarded as a sign of old age. But what exactly is going on in the brain that makes it more difficult for older people to remember things?

Researchers applied the tools of neuroscience to study when and how an artificial neural network can overcome bias in a dataset. They found that data diversity, not dataset size, is key and that the emergence of certain types of neurons during training plays a major role in how well a neural network is able to overcome dataset bias.

New MIT professors research hibernation, cancer, the immune system, airways, and human movement in the departments of biology and brain and cognitive sciences at the School of Science.